ON THIS DAY

Going into the last match of the season Carlisle United were favourites to fill the one relegation spot from the League to the Conference, they were a point behind Scarborough. Going into the last seconds of the season Carlisle were near certainties to go down. Scarborough's match had just finished - they had got a point - while Carlisle were level with Plymouth at Brunton Park, and so they needed a win to stay up. With seconds left Carlisle goalkeeper Jimmy Glass went upfield for a Carlisle corner - and scored the winning goal to keep Carlisle in the Football League. Jimmy Glass was on loan from Swindon at the time, he only ever played 3 times for Carlisle and yet scored one of the most important goals in the clubs' history - not bad for a goalkeeper!

Well Brian Clough couldn't ever be called the most popular of people but he achieved brilliant success as a manager. He managed Derby to their first League title and repeated the feat at Nottingham Forest. More success followed at the City Ground with Forest becoming top-dogs in Europe, winning the European Cup in 1979 and retaining it a year later. Amazing. Sadly by the time he had announced his retirement Forest were struggling and his last match in charge saw Forest suffering relegation, finishing bottom in the first Premier League season of 1992/93. His last match in charge was on 8th May 1993 and ended with a 2-1 loss at Ipswich. But another Clough era was underway with Forest's goalscorer in that match being Brian's son Nigel. Both as a player and a manager Brian Clough achieved great success - if only the powers-to-be had given Cloughie the chance to manager England what might he have achieved?